Looking Back Quotes

514 quotes by 449 authors

Hassan and I fed from the same breasts. We took our first steps on the same lawn in the same yard. And, under the same… — Khaled Hosseini
They seemed no closer to the tops of the peaks that rose before them. It was only by looking back, to the forest far below,… — Kristin Cashore
After all, what can we ever gain in forever looking back and blaming ourselves if our lives have not turned out quite as we might… — Kazuo Ishiguro
The eyes of the future are looking back at us and they are praying for us to see beyond our own time. They are kneeling… — Terry Tempest Williams
[talking about the Holocaust] 'But to put something in context is a step towards saying it can be understood and that it can be explained.… — Alan Bennett
What's going on?" Newt asked, looking back and forth between Thomas and Aris. "Why're you guys looking at each other like you just fell in… — James Dashner
You saw me before I saw you. In the airport, that day in August, you had that look in your eyes, as though you wanted… — Lucy Christopher
The future is there... looking back at us. Trying to make sense of the fiction we will have become. — William Gibson
How could you have guessed?â€ Miserable though Will was, he felt free, as if a heavy burden had been displaced from him. â€œI did all… — Cassandra Clare
A man who aspires to rise above the mediocre, to be something more than the ordinary, surely deserves admiration, even if he fails and loses… — Kazuo Ishiguro
How can you not care?" "Practice," Magnus said, looking back to his book and turning the page. — Cassandra Clare
Wow. When he started looking back on the war with Kronos as the good old days--that was sad. — Rick Riordan
A world in which time is absolute is a world of consolation. For while the movements of people are unpredictable, the movement of time is… — Alan Lightman
When you're finally up on the moon, looking back at the earth, all these differences and nationalistic traits are pretty well going to blend and… — Frank Borman
One of the first and foremost duties of the teacher is not to give his students the impression that mathematical problems have little connection with… — George Polya
I've always been very impatient. At age 10 I frankly found life boring, and I can remember age 9 having the awful thought, as it… — Roger Bannister
I had been playing beach volleyball all day, painted my nails red, and threw on a green dress. I thought I looked great at the… — Charlene, Princess of Monaco
The opportunity to orbit the Earth, witnessing multiple sunrises and sunsets every day, looking back to our small blue life-sustaining jewel from a distance, gives… — Sarah Brightman
When I was younger, me and my brother got a video camera, and he used to direct and I used to act. We used to… — Iain De Caestecker
There was a time in my life when I was going in and out of houses that were extraordinarily different - from a working-class terrace… — Mark Haddon

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